RFA Allegiance

Previous name:
Subsequent name:               Allegiance 2    Kowloondocks                                                           

Class:                                      Assurance

Pennant No:                           W50 / A150

Laid down:                             27 October 1942
Builder:                                   Cochrane & Sons, Selby
Launched:                              22 February 1943
Into Service:                            24 May 1943
Out of service:
Fate:                                        1 September 1962 - foundered off Hong Kong

Items of historic interest involving this ship: -

22 July 1943 sailed in convoy MKS 018G from Gibraltar towing HMS Derwent

15 September 1943 joined convoy HX 256 at 47 50N 47 25W. The convoy had sailed from New York on 9 September 1943 and arrived at Liverpool on the 21 September 1943. One ship in the convoy was torpedoed but not lost.

13 October 1943 involved in a collision with HMS Kite at Londonderry

20 March 1944 while towing HMS/m Graph (ex German U Boat U570) to the Clyde for breaking up the submarine ran aground on the west coast of the Island of Islay

1945 Chartered to Whampoa Dockyard Co Ltd Hong Kong

1949 renamed Allegiance 2

8 December 1950 fired on from Communist Chinese Forces on the Ladrone Islands off Hong Kong  when she was returning with survivors from a ship which had sunk in the South China Sea. The bridge was hit twice by bullets.

When she foundered there was only survivor out of a crew of 30